Catalonia Will Need To Begin Water Importation By Ship Starting In May As Spain's Drought Continues

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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's northeast Catalonia region will need to import water by ship and train from May to ensure domestic supplies if the current drought persists, the regional government said in a report.

The report, sent to Reuters on Friday, said rainfall in all but one of Catalonia's 15 river basins was below emergency levels for the year so far.

"Forecasts show that if scant additions to reservoirs continue as they have in the past 11 months, resources need to be brought in by ship during May to prevent cuts in domestic supply," the report said.

Plans are for seven boats to come in May to regional capital Barcelona, at first from nearby port Tarragona, then from French port Marseille. A further three ships may arrive in August from a desalination plant in southern Spanish port Carboneras.

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http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/34139

[MidwestTransplant]

1. The Sahara is projected to sextend into Southern Europe and Spain.

[kestrel91316]

2. I just hope they have the sense to stop development.

No new housing construction. No new commercial construction. Basically, take existing development off the water meter before putting anyone new on it. They have literally "tapped out".

This is gonna happen elsewhere, too, in time.

[NNadir]

3. Oh please.

This new desert is a perfect place for solar powered houses. No trees will get in the way.

[malakai2]

4. Or clouds

And we can use all the spare capacity to run our reverse osmosis desalination plants. Since there won't be any nukes, there can't possibly be any pollution, so we'll just play the economist game and assume a few dozen petajoules of daily battery storage. Our cars will all run on hydrogen, we'll be able to drive however much we want, and it'll be good because nobody will freeze to death, and...

Kinda like playing SimCity. After taking mushrooms.